JonasWaingaro Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Thought I'd jump into the book club. OG it'll cost a fortune to ship books. I ran into this issue when I was coming back from the UK. It will be much cheaper buying new copies there, or used 'new' copies. I like my iPad for reading. I'm a big book fan and have, well, a lot. haha But on the go/traveling the eBooks are awesome. In one small unit you can carry hundreds of books. That alone makes it worth it. Anyhoo, you get used to using an eReader fairly quickly. It's not a bad experience. It's not the same of course but not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Thought I'd jump into the book club. OG it'll cost a fortune to ship books. I ran into this issue when I was coming back from the UK. It will be much cheaper buying new copies there, or used 'new' copies. I like my iPad for reading. I'm a big book fan and have, well, a lot. haha But on the go/traveling the eBooks are awesome. In one small unit you can carry hundreds of books. That alone makes it worth it. Anyhoo, you get used to using an eReader fairly quickly. It's not a bad experience. It's not the same of course but not bad. How many books were you trying to ship Jonas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonasWaingaro Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Not many but they are fairly heavy/bulky but I didn't think crazy heavy. The postage was crazy. It was cheaper to just stuff them into my bags and pay the airlines baggage weight overage fee. Which isn't cheap either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Yeah, I probably won't buy any more btween now and then and see how much it will be to ship the 10 books I have. 3 are big and bulky, the rest are your average paper back book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 What kind of romance novels do you read, og? I read a lot of harlequin special edition ones. Those are my favorite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 What kind of romance novels do you read, og? I read a lot of harlequin special edition ones. Those are my favorite! I tend to lean toward the romance novels that are a series, but never with the same people. One of my favorite romance series is Nora Roberts' Irish Triology 'Jewels of the Sun', 'Tears of the Moon' and 'Heart of the Sea'. Each book is about one of 3 siblings in the same family falling in love. There's another series I can't recall the name of but I have it written down... the only book I have come accross not in a series that I loved was this one called Border Hostage I believe. It was set in like the 1600-1800 era and was amazingly written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Some of the harlequin special edition ones I read are series like yhat. Like about each sibling and such. Gina Wilkins is one author who's done that a couple times. Like the mcclouds of Mississippi series. I like when they do series like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 I do too. I get SO attached to characters in books, I hate when there's only one book about them. Perhaps that's why I stick more with series in books. You watch the same characters grow and change over time. One of my fantasy series' author recently killed off two major characters and I cried, no lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 I'm the same way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 It's like hard! I think that's anothre reason why my novel is actually a series of novels... I can't fathom creating a whole world for just one set of characters and then never using it again. I love the familiarity of charcters you know and how they will react and were the author decides to take them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daligal83 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 If it's a good book, I get SO attached to the characters. I hate when the book is over because I feel like my friends have moved away suddenly and I'll never talk to them again. A good book is better than any TV show or movie out there. I usually read during my lunch break because it's my escape. It's annoys my friends but they get used to it. Right now I'm reading The Hunger Games, which I wasn't sure about at first, it's a pretty morbid plot, but my sister swore it was amazing and she was right. All I want to do is read that book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 You absolutely must read "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet. Everyone should. It's the best book ever, and you'll be so attached to the characters. It spans nearly 50 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Didn't they make a movie about that book? Or are going to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 They did a mini series on Starz. It was also wonderful but of course nothing beats the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Nothing ever beats the book, lol! i like seeing my favorite books on big screen but they do it justice really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I always watch the movies of the books I read. I read "The Help" recently and then watched the movie. Both were AMAZING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 i never read that book but I watched the movie before we got married. LOVED it! had me in stitches the whole time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 The book is SO GOOD too. You have to read it. I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daligal83 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Just put myself on the waiting list for Pillars of the Earth. Thanks hers! They are making movies out of The Hunger Games too I think. Definitely won't be as good as the book. I'm interested to watch the American version of The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo. I watched the original movie and didn't like it. I read the whole series though and loved most of it. The Help is one of my favorite books!! I also love The Mole People by Jennifer Toth. It's about the underground homeless in NYC. She actually goes underground to learn about their world and there are pictures..it's amazing. And my other favorite is There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowicz. He followed these two kids in the 80's in the ghetto of Chicago and by the end I was so engrossed in them that I emailed the author to see if they were OK haha. And he answered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I've emailed a bunch of authors haha. I'm friends with a couple of them on FB too (as much as we can be friends haha). I've eamiled with Ken Follett a few times, actually, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daligal83 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm happy to know I'm not the only one that does that! Have you read The Hunger Games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 No but Jared did and he didn't like them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daligal83 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 What?!!?!! Why? I'm only on the first one but I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 He liked the books themselves but the end of the 3rd book "pissed him off". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptomisticGirl Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 I've emailed two of my favorite fantasy authors before - they were pretty down to Earth too! So I'm getting a tattoo next month. I say getting but I promised L to think about it - I technically have known I wanted one on the inside of my wrist for a while now but I know he doesn't particularly like tattoos on women (so I never mentioned it to him until I figured out what I wanted). I decided to get my favorite Tolkein quote 'Not all who wander are lost' in Elvish. But I promise him I wouldn't just go out and jung ho it, I would give it serious thought and consideration and I may push it back to after the first of the year or close to it. It's not like tattoos are new to me. My dad had 5 growing up but what I did learn from him was to only get things I would never regret later in life, something special to me. He learned not to tatto names on him (he had mom's name on his arm and, well, you know how that ended So I have been thinking for years what I want. I know what I want my shoulders but the wrist one has always eluded me. I wanted something small, something meaningful. I happened to be reading something and Tolkein's quote came up and it was like a light bulb went off in my head. But still mulling it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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